Test Analyst Contracts in London

Test Analyst
England > London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 307 390
Rank change year-on-year +23 +83 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 107 197 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.72% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.75% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 159 175
10th Percentile £297 £307 £325
25th Percentile £381 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £560 £650 £500
90th Percentile £640 £738 £595
England median daily rate £450 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -5.26% +15.85% +11.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,618 26,148 37,443
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.28% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,014 18,877 27,349
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 297 456
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.08
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £44.50 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.95 £76.95 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +44 17 £450 -5.26%
South London +16 2 £288 -25.81%
East London -3 2 £468 +7.47% 1
North London - 1 £313 -
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 40 (37.38%) Test Automation
2 37 (34.58%) Agile
3 28 (26.17%) Finance
4 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
5 25 (23.36%) SC Cleared
6 24 (22.43%) C#
7 23 (21.50%) Selenium
8 22 (20.56%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (19.63%) JIRA
10 20 (18.69%) Azure
11 19 (17.76%) DevOps
12 18 (16.82%) Test Scripting
12 18 (16.82%) Performance Testing
12 18 (16.82%) Software Testing
13 17 (15.89%) Banking
13 17 (15.89%) Scrum
13 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (15.89%) Scenario Testing
13 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
14 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
15 15 (14.02%) End-to-End Testing
15 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
16 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
16 14 (13.08%) SpecFlow
16 14 (13.08%) Integration Testing
16 14 (13.08%) SQL
16 14 (13.08%) XML
17 13 (12.15%) Java
17 13 (12.15%) SQL Server
17 13 (12.15%) Visual Studio

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.87%) CMS
1 2 (1.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.87%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.69%) Azure
2 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (9.35%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.67%) AWS
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.87%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (1.87%) dbt
5 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.87%) Serverless
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.93%) Boomi
6 1 (0.93%) FinancialForce
6 1 (0.93%) Firebase
6 1 (0.93%) SaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) SSH
2 2 (1.87%) MVNO
2 2 (1.87%) SMS
2 2 (1.87%) VoWiFi
3 1 (0.93%) DVB
3 1 (0.93%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Selenium
2 21 (19.63%) JIRA
3 14 (13.08%) SpecFlow
4 13 (12.15%) Visual Studio
4 13 (12.15%) WebDriver
5 4 (3.74%) Appium
5 4 (3.74%) Git
5 4 (3.74%) JMeter
5 4 (3.74%) LoadRunner
5 4 (3.74%) Postman
6 3 (2.80%) Gradle
6 3 (2.80%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.80%) JUnit
7 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.87%) Rational Performance Tester
7 2 (1.87%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (26.17%) Finance
2 17 (15.89%) Banking
3 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
4 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Back Office
7 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Billing
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.08%) XML
2 12 (11.21%) .NET
3 11 (10.28%) .NET Framework
3 11 (10.28%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (3.74%) ADO
6 3 (2.80%) Kafka
6 3 (2.80%) XBRL
7 2 (1.87%) FpML
7 2 (1.87%) JSON
7 2 (1.87%) Playwright
8 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.93%) REST
8 1 (0.93%) RESTful
8 1 (0.93%) Web Services
8 1 (0.93%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
1 7 (6.54%) Reinsurance
2 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.80%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.87%) DTCC
4 2 (1.87%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.93%) Contactless
5 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Derivative
5 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.93%) IVR
5 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.93%) MPEG
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) STB
5 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.93%) W3C
5 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Linux
2 2 (1.87%) Unix
2 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.38%) Test Automation
2 37 (34.58%) Agile
3 22 (20.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (17.76%) DevOps
5 18 (16.82%) Performance Testing
5 18 (16.82%) Software Testing
5 18 (16.82%) Test Scripting
6 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
6 17 (15.89%) Scenario Testing
6 17 (15.89%) Scrum
7 15 (14.02%) End-to-End Testing
8 14 (13.08%) Integration Testing
9 13 (12.15%) Migration
10 12 (11.21%) Functional Testing
11 11 (10.28%) Manual Testing
12 10 (9.35%) B2C
12 10 (9.35%) Non-Functional Testing
12 10 (9.35%) Regression Testing
12 10 (9.35%) Test Strategy
13 9 (8.41%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) C#
2 14 (13.08%) SQL
3 13 (12.15%) Java
4 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.61%) Python
6 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) Ruby
7 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) Degree
4 5 (4.67%) ISEB
4 5 (4.67%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.80%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.87%) MiFID
4 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Kibana
2 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.93%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.74%) HP
5 2 (1.87%) IBM
5 2 (1.87%) Murex
6 1 (0.93%) Aderant
6 1 (0.93%) Citrix
6 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.93%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) VMware
6 1 (0.93%) Workday